Name: In Our Daughter's Eyes
Start: 2023-01-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Baruch Performing Arts Center

Organization

Prototype

Conductor

Kamna Gupta

Stage director

Michael Joseph McQuilken

Singer

Nathan Gunn

Baritone

Beth Morrison Projects

In Our Daughter's Eyes

New York City

United States

Baruch Performing Arts Center

Public

Private

Approved

A deeply moving world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music. Baritone Nathan Gunn star...

Told through the perspective of a new father, In Our Daughter’s Eyes shows the journey of the protagonist as he wrestles with truly becoming a man that his daughter would be proud of. He imparts passages from the journal he keeps — a gift for his unborn daughter — as the moments of this journey unfold before him.  The story traces his wife’s joyful and fraught pregnancy, the legacy of the family’s past, and his personal demons that he vows to vanquish before assuming the role of a father. Along the way, mounting complications take the story through unexpected and sobering turns that test our flawed hero as he discovers a strength of self and purpose that he never imagined possible. This moving and heartfelt one-man opera reunites Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, Beth Morrison Projects, and multidisciplinary librettist & director Michael Joseph McQuilken after their lauded co-creation of Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel’s Bone in 2016.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Co-Producer